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Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator

New fossil discoveries show predatory marine reptiles from 200 million years ago may have been bigger than today’s blue whales – and that they evolved astonishingly rapidly

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Ichthyosaur

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Fossils reveal the dinosaur era's changing insect soundscape

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A male katydid fossil from the Early Cretaceous period

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DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered

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Mastodons, hares, geese and reindeer in a forest
Artist’s reconstruction of Janavis finalidens, a very large marine bird from the late Cretaceous

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Ancient bird with a movable beak rewrites the story of avian evolution

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Whatcheeria

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Ancient predator was one of first vertebrates to grow fast while young

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Turtle artwork

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Gigantic turtle from the dinosaur era was almost 4 metres long

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Artistic reconstruction of the fossil squamate, Bellairsia gracilis

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Fossil shows what lizards' ancestors looked like 167 million years ago

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Life reconstruction of Edmontosaurus

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Mummified dinosaur has bite marks and gashes in its skin

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Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. Includes two rhynchosaurs (front right), an aetosaur (left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (back right).

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Two-legged dinosaur from Zimbabwe is the oldest ever found in Africa

A predecessor of the long-necked sauropods named Mbiresaurus raathi provides clues about how climate restricted the range of early dinosaurs

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panoramic of Serran?a del Perij?

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Colombian dinosaur finally identified thanks to 2016 peace agreement

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Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right).

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T. rex’s unusual eye sockets helped it evolve a powerful bite

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Illustration of Qikiqtania wakei in the water

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A fish that evolved to stand up on land went back to living in water

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A reconstruction of Stanleycaris hirpex

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Three-eyed predator stalked the seas 500 million years ago

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